AI Article Synopsis

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heart muscle disease that can rarely occur alongside muscular ventricular septal defect (VSD), particularly with incomplete closure and abnormal coronary artery origins.
  • A unique case involving a 26-year-old man with HCM, incomplete closure of muscular VSD, and an abnormal right coronary artery was successfully diagnosed using various imaging techniques, including echocardiography and computed tomography angiography.
  • This is the first documented case of its kind, highlighting the importance of using multiple diagnostic methods to detect additional congenital abnormalities in patients with HCM, rather than relying solely on echocardiography.

Article Abstract

Background: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a myocardial disease. However, the coexistence of HCM with muscular ventricular septal defect (VSD), especially those with both incomplete spontaneous closure and coronary abnormal origin, is relatively rare.

Case Presentation: We report herein a unique case of HCM accompanied with incomplete spontaneous closure of muscular VSD and abnormal origin of right coronary artery (RCA) in a 26-year-old man, which was diagnosed by combination of transthoracic 2-dimensional (2D), color Doppler, Contrast-enhanced echocardiography and computed tomography angiography (CTA).

Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first report that HCM along with the incomplete spontaneous closure of muscular VSD and anomalous RCA arising from left coronary sinus was revealed through combination of transthoracic 2D, color Doppler, Contrast-enhanced echocardiography and CTA. These observations indicated that other associated anomalies in patients with HCM could be easily missed if examined by the single echocardiography. Therefore, HCM-associated congenital abnormalities should be screened by combination of transthoracic 2D, color Doppler, contrast-enhanced echocardiography, and CTA.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6332565PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0997-8DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

abnormal origin
12
incomplete spontaneous
12
spontaneous closure
12
combination transthoracic
12
color doppler
12
doppler contrast-enhanced
12
contrast-enhanced echocardiography
12
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
8
muscular ventricular
8
ventricular septal
8

Similar Publications

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!